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EDITORIAL NOTES

Squnre Brackels [I NUMBERS IN SQUARE BRACKETS at the end of each
research segment in the Direcrory refer to THE
CONTRIBUTOR.
WE REMIND ALL CONTRIBUTORS TO FUTURE
DIRECTORIES TO CHECK ABBREVIATIONS
APPEARING ON THE CURRENT ENTRY FORM
BEFORE ENTERING DETAILS
Place Names snd Codes We are graleful to Colin Chapman for his agreement to his
Countv Codes for Britain and Ireland beine adoded in this
Direcriry. ~qaret~udinand Prledrich ~oimnersh~user have
supplied the abbreviations for France and Germany

misspellings ofplace names, we% correcled toassist usem and
contributors alike.
JohnBartholomew's Survey Gozeneerofrhe Bn'rish Isles (Ylh
dilim 1950) har been the ylvrceusd forcdonsofBrilish
pi- nms. The CrMmlAlphobefi~lIoder fofhe TmwkmA
ondTovns. Parisks wdBnmnies oflrelond in 1851 and the
TapographrcalDinionnry oflrelondby Samuel Lewis (2 volr)
have been invaluable for corrections of Irish place names
submined on forms. Somecities arelocated inmore thanone
county,e.g. Belfast: ANTandD0W;Brislol: SOMandGLS;
Birmingham: WAR and WOR; London: MDX, SRY, KEN
and HRT. These cities frque_ntly appear in the Directory
without acounryahhrevlatian following. The IP84Norioool
FiveDigirZip CodeondP.0. Direnory,supplied by theUS.
Postal Service, the Canadian Porrnl Code Direcrory and
Australia Past's posl code lists have been consulled as
necessary.
Family names Names being searched are listed in strict alphabetical
alpha sequence order ~rcrpt those prefixed with MC and MAC which
have been sorted together. Names containing
punctuation 0rspacese.g. O'BRIENand DE LA PORTE
have been sorted ignarine the punctualion and spaces
although the nvmcs have been printed in their proper
form. Therefore DE LA PORTE appears ofrer
DELANY. This is a chnnge from previous Dbrcrorics.
Names originally prefixed with DE, VAN. LAetc. may
have dropped the prefix and will be listed underthe first
letter of the principal part aithe name. Both variations
should be consul~ed. Family names such as JOLLY -
JOLLEY - lOLLlE have nat beenexpanded to all variants
with s (seeentry). All contrlbutorsare requested in futm
to recordon aseprato linevnrlpthofume rather than
clutter up a particular entry with twoar thravllrlnnls in
spelling.
Past LXmetorirs

agcnls listed an the reverse side of the title page